Minn of the Mississippi
- ISBN-10
- 0395273994
- ISBN-13
- 9780395273999
- Category
- Juvenile Fiction
- Pages
- 92
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1951
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Description
Follows the adventures of Minn, a three-legged snapping turtle, as she slowly makes her way from her birthplace at the headwaters of the Mississippi River to the mouth of river on the Gulf of Mexico.
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